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Python Python Collections (2016, retired 2019) Slices sillyCase

jmac pd
jmac pd
11,490 Points
Posted by jmac pd
jmac pd
11,490 Points

should return half lower and half upper right?

maybe I'm just making the code way too complicated than it should be but I ran this with a few examples and it did do what was instructed.

Am I missing something here?

sillycase.py 
def sillycase(string):
    string1=[]
    string2=[]
    string = list(string)
    half = len(string)//2
    for i in string[:half]:
        string1.append(i.lower())
    for i in string[half:]:
        string2.append(i.upper())
    string = string1+string2
    string[:]=[''.join(string[:])]
    return string

2 Answers

andren
andren
28,558 Points
andren
andren
28,558 Points

Slices work on strings just like they do on lists, so there is no need to convert the string to a list.

You can just slice the strings directly and lower/upper case them like this:

def sillycase(string):
    half = len(string)//2
    return string[:half].lower() + string[half:].upper()
jmac pd
jmac pd
11,490 Points
jmac pd
jmac pd
11,490 Points

NVM got it, was returning a list.

I just added return string.pop(0) and it was fine haha but a more efficient way to write this would be read if it was posted =)